ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018
Spatial patterns of tree yield explained by endogenous forces through a correspondence between the Ising model and ecology.
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- Cooperative root graft networks benefit mangrove trees under stress.Communications biology · 2021Article
- Growth, death, and resource competition in sessile organisms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Transition prediction in the Ising-model.PloS one · 2021Article
- Joint assessment of density correlations and fluctuations for analysing spatial tree patterns.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Dynamical Ising model of spatially coupled ecological oscillators.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2020Article
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Abstract
Spatial patterning of periodic dynamics is a dramatic and ubiquitous ecological phenomenon arising in systems ranging from diseases to plants to mammals. The degree to which spatial correlations in cyclic dynamics are the result of endogenous factors related to local dynamics vs. exogenous forcing has been one of the central questions in ecology for nearly a century. With the goal of obtaining a robust explanation for correlations over space and time in dynamics that would apply to many systems, we base our analysis on the Ising model of statistical physics, which provides a fundamental mechanism of spatial patterning. We show, using 5 y of data on over 6,500 trees in a pistachio orchard, that annual nut production, in different years, exhibits both large-scale synchrony and self-similar, power-law decaying correlations consistent with the Ising model near criticality. Our approach demonstrates the possibility that short-range interactions can lead to long-range correlations over space and time of cyclic dynamics even in the presence of large environmental variability. We propose that root grafting could be the common mechanism leading to positive short-range interactions that explains the ubiquity of masting, correlated seed production over space through time, by trees.
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